Saturday, September 28, 2002

This is bad - I'm having connection withdrawl. Have determined that the problem seems to be my local phone lines. Something has happened since I was here last to make my connection quality virtually nil. I can make a connection to an ISP, but can't hold it for more than a minute or so. I've gone from broadband to no man's land. 6:41:38 AM

On the road again, back in KY. Thank God for Radio's offline posting capabilities, because I'm having trouble with dial-up networking (again). At least I can blog a bit. MS networking makes me feel like the rest of humanity probably feels about all computing tools - helpless and frustrated. I just don't get it - I have a connection, I'm moving data back and forth through the service provider(s), but I can't find a website or connect to a mailserver. This has been going on for over 24 hours, so it's not likely just a temporary DNS outage. The problem is, if it's not a DNS problem, I have no idea where to start troubleshooting. I've become so spoiled and complacent with the appliance-like quality of my wireless/cable model connection in the CA home, this feels like the dark ages. A-a-a-acccck. 5:13:07 AM

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